Squeezing Qualified Traffic from Blogging Software
March 30, 2005
From the blog, over the RSS feed, into Bloglines, right to your site: nothing but profit.
How does THAT work?
Click here to find out.
Spam, Your E-mail Address & Your Web Site
March 30, 2005
Address harvesting robots trawl the ‘net relentlessly, looking for anything that resembles an e-mail address. When they find an address, it is added to spam mailing lists and sold to all of those people who like to send you e-mail about your mortgage and your sex life.
But you still need to have a way to have visitors to your site contact you.
Want to know how to have your cake and eat it too? Click here to find out!
Listing your site on Open Directory (DMOZ)
March 30, 2005
“The Open Directory Project (aka “DMOZ”Â) represents an excellent free alternative to paying for a Yahoo listing. An “open source” community-edited service, Open Directory has grown larger than Yahoo’s aging offering. Since many “portal sites” and “start pages” include the Open Directory listings as their own Yahoo-like service, a good listing on the Open Directory can often directly send more qualified traffic than an equivalent listing on Yahoo’s directory.”
Click here to learn how to add your site to Open Directory
Traffic and the Average Website
March 30, 2005
“How can we categorize traffic for the average website? It’s pretty simple, actually – the average website doesn’t get any traffic to speak of…”
It’s depressing, but it’s true — click here to learn about the kind of traffic most web sites get.
Measuring Your Web Site Traffic
March 30, 2005
Do you know who’s visiting your site, where they come from, and how long they stay? If not, then you are designing and tweaking your site in the dark.
“Regardless of the statistics package you use, whether it’s provided by your web host or one you download and run on your own computer, it’s vitally important that you learn how to read your site statistics, and do it regularly. Otherwise, you have no tools to gauge how well your site is performing, and how well you are promoting your site – whether links from other sites are actually sending you traffic, whether search engines are finding your most important pages, etc.”
Click Here to Learn How to Measure your traffic
Writing Content for Your Website
March 30, 2005
So, you’ve got a great design and everything is visually correct — now how do you write content for your new web site that actually gets your message across before people hit the “back” button?
Fortunately, Sitepoint has a great guide to copy writing for the web designer.
Goodbye, Internet Explorer
March 30, 2005
Well, the jury is in — everybody from security firms to Microsoft’s own online publications say that you’re probably better off leaving Internet Explorer behind, and using Firefox as your browser.
If you’re ready to give it a try, here’s a Step-by-step guide to installing Firefox, and securing your system from Internet Explorer’s security problems.
Learning About Spyware
March 30, 2005
How safe are you really from Spyware? Do you know what really is really lurking in your machines, reporting on where you go and what you do?
Does your machine seem slower than it used to be? Is it doing odd, inexplicable things?
Before you call the Ghostbusters, maybe it’s time to learn about Spyware and You — what it is, how to get rid of it, and how to avoid it it in the future.
All you zombies
March 30, 2005
Lastest reports suggest that most of the spam and viruses out there come from “Zombie” machines — machines that have been infected with viruses, spyware and other malware — often unknown to the owner — that sit and pump out their nasty effluent for the highest bidder.
Is your machine among the infected? Or likely to become so? Who among your acquaintences badly needs some clues and advice?
Here’s a simple guide to how to protect yourself, your computer, and your data.
Find out for sure if you’re part of the problem — or how to insure you don’t become a part of it.
When the worst happens
March 30, 2005
It’s finally started happening — attacks on Internet users are appearing before there are patches to stop them — the so-called “Day Zero Exploits”.
Even if you’re careful and doing everything right, you might still be hit
What does this mean to you, and how can you protect yourself from this new escalation of attacks?
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